Commercial cases: Using a RWSN Talk in a commercial context (on an intranet system, at a company event, in training materials, within a RWSN-branded video offering or editorial program, and more), requires permission. Please send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to inquire about licensing RWSN content. Read more below about bringing RWSN Talks to for-profit companies.

Non-commercial cases: We encourage you to share RWSN Talks that are licensed for distribution under our Creative Commons license, Attribution–Non Commercial–No Derivatives (or the CC BY – NC – ND 4.0 International) which means it may be shared by following a few requirements. 

• Attribute RWSN as the owner of the RWSN Talk and include a link to the talk, but do not include any text that shows RWSN endorses your website or platform.
• Do not use the RWSN site content for any commercial purposes, for sale, sublicense or in an app of any kind for any advertising, or in exchange for payment of any kind.
• You cannot remix, create derivative work or modify the RWSN site content in any way.
• You may not add any further more restrictions that we have provided to the RWSN site content, such as additional legal restrictions, or charge any fees or technological restrictions to accessing the content.

Embedding RWSN Talks on your blog or site:

• Type of site/company: Bloggers, news/information websites and nonprofits (by which we mean: registered with the appropriate national authorities as a non-profit organisation), may share one or more RWSN Talks under a Creative Commons (CC) license, provided that they follow the rest of the guidelines on this page and sharing the RWSN Talks is not the central purpose of your site. This means that we expect the usage under Creative Commons to be one to share ideas, not to use RWSN Talks as the main content for your site, which provides revenue or other sources of income that relies on content we are providing. If you are interested in licensing RWSN Talks for other purposes, or for more regular usage, please contact us for more details.
• Transcripts and subtitles may be used under the same Creative Commons license in conjunction with the RWSN Talk video. Copyright on the transcripts is owned by RWSN and any edits, different usage rights or changes to these documents are not permitted without permission. Thus, if you wanted to publish a RWSN Talk in a book, test, play, or otherwise, for any other publication, permission is required.
• Attribution: You must add a visible link back to www.rural-water.net
• Running talks in their entirety: You may not edit RWSN Talks, or alter them in any way. This is essential for preserving the integrity of the speaker's ideas.

Commercial applications of RWSN Talks require a license. Companies and organizations looking to embed or hyperlink RWSN content in contexts that include (but are not limited to) internal communications, employee training materials, and company websites must inquire about licensing RWSN Talks. Please note that no promotional applications of RWSN content are permitted. Licenses for commercial applications involve a fee, which supports RWSN nonprofit mission.

We encourage you to find creative ways to share RWSN Talks with your students, colleagues and communities. See below for specific examples. Please note that some of the below use cases require a license.

RWSN Talks in lectures
Many trainers and universities use RWSN materials to stimulate discussions with students or to complement course materials and we encourage you to do so as well. You can stream RWSN Talks from RWSN's official YouTube or Vimeo channels, as long as you comply with the terms of the Creative Commons license outlined above. Feel free to share links to RWSN's official YouTube and Vimeo channels with students on online forums or class websites.

Screening to groups 
A variety of companies, organizations and institutions request use of RWSN Talks for screening within common areas, for educational use in exhibits, and for employee training and development. Some of these use cases require a license. For more information about obtaining a license for these purposes, please fill out the media licensing request form.

Translating RWSN Talks
For those interested in helping to translate RWSN talks, please contact the RWSN Secretariat at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. You may even find that the talk you're looking for is already translated into your language. 

Need more information, or have a unique request? contact the RWSN Secretariat at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or via social media.